• Forster Studio (photographic studio)
• General Motors Corporation (client)
• Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)

View of the west façade of the Aluminum Forge Building, General Motors Corporation Chevrolet division Automobile Assembly Plant, Saginaw, Michigan

August 1943

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 23.5 x 19.1 cm sheet: 25.5 x 20.7 cm

PH2000:0248

• exterior view

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, c.l.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR PUBLICATION / PURPOSES CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / Detroit, Michigan" [sideways] stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "FORSTER STUDIO / Detroit / M9663[-10]" [negative number is added by a second stamp; text in square parentheses is inscribed by an unknown hand in pen and blue ink] labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.c. to l.c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [CHEVROLET MOTOR DIVISION / General Motors Corporation] / LOCATION [Saginaw, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Aluminum Forge Plant - / West Elevation] / DATE TAKEN [August, 1943] JOB No. [1905] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich - Neg. #7552-D]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; sideways]

Saginaw; Michigan; United States;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• entrances
• chimneys (architectural elements)
• windows
• hospital
• industrial complex
• industrial building
• automobile assembly plant
• aluminum founding
• factory (structure)